#i don't think melinoë is naive per se. i just think that there are things she's unaware of | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

autumnoakes · 2 months ago

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i'm having trouble forming this thought into words but there's something about melinoë being raised the way that she was and being taught to think the way that she does to the point of not being able to think any other way. it's not naivety and it very much reminds me of how prejudices get passed from parent to child. i keep seeing these statements coming from the olympians saying that the old golden age was a farce and that chronos is manipulating the humans into following him (note that we don't have any living human perspective on what's happening, so we don't really know how far chronos' reach has spread. all we have to go on is what's happening in the realms of the gods and in ephyra). it's all being perpetuated by gods that melinoë has been raised to trust and believe in. i think she could be nearing a tipping point as the plot progresses, though. like i said, i don't think there's necessarily a "good" or "bad" side here, only the side that melinoë/the player is on and the side that chronos is on (plus many of the NPCs that we meet who are generally uninvolved in the whole mess). but there's also a lot that we're missing simply because melinoë is unaware of it.

#hades 2 #hades 2 spoilers #just because we play as the protagonist doesn't necessarily mean that she's on the good side and that chronos' side is the bad one #however i also don't think the inverse is true where melinoë is on the bad side and chronos' side is the good side #it's FAR too nuanced to label one side as good and the other as bad. that's the whole point i think #i don't think melinoë is naive per se. i just think that there are things she's unaware of #and there are things she doesn't want to admit #she grew up sheltered and not by the fault of anyone but the one who was hunting her (which was chronos)#(there's a bit of dialogue where chronos is asking hades where his daughter is.)#(it's heard after mel dies some time. i think specifically after a chronos fight or in tartarus somewhere but i may be wrong)#(idk if that was supposed to be recent like during the events of the game or if it was meant to be around the time chronos invaded the house #like i don't think it was hecate's fault in raising melinoë that she grew up sheltered. that was a necessity for mel's safety #but i don't think we can leave the effects that had on melinoë's character out of the conversation #also this thought came to me in a vision (watching tlou2 gameplay and comparing ellie to melinoë)

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